Vincent Parrett

I guess it depends which features you are using, I did this a while back and only hit a few minor issues. I was mosly using the collections (and the IEnumerable<T> linq features) and the container.

Both the VCL and FMX are both designed to operate in the main thread only, creating/updating UI elements in another thread is quite likely to cause you problems.

The cloud isn't always cheaper (been there, done that, bought new servers). To make the cloud cheaper you really need to leverage the features they provide (not just a bunch of vm's) - and that means re-architecting things (=time + more money) and it also means vendor lock in - once you leverage the cloud features it's not easy to switch providers.

There are very few people left at Embarcadero that worked there in the 80s or 90s. A more likely explanation is that the people who know how all that stuff works are no longer there.. so people are afraid to touch it 🤔

I looked at sgcWebSockets today - but the price is really steep - I don't need the rest of the library but http/2 is only in the most expensive version - and then I need to get gprc working on top of that. I'm actually leaning towards doing this project in c# (the server is already c#) - testing with .net 8.0 AOT compilation so far produced a 4.5MB exe (+ a 12MB dll for google protocol buffers). Obviously it will be larger than that once done. As much as I want to use delphi for this project - the libraries are just not there - contrast to dotnet - grpc is a first class citizen (and the performance is impressive). I was able to get up and running in less than 10 minutes - contrast that to having spent most of today looking for a delphi grpc client that works.

I've been looking at that - since the DelphiGRPC makes use of it. Down the rabbit hole I go..

In the context of code signing, where do you get a pfx these days? the only certificates being issued are on tokens or HSM's, neither of which allow exporting the private key. We can debate the merits of the decisions taken with regards to the future of code signing but the reality is what we have in front of us right now... and that is what people are struggling with.

No, you only need to do that if the machine you are signing on is different to the one where the usb token is installed. pfx files are a thing of the past (except for self signed certificates), so forget about that bit. Do not expect the IDE to support code signing with tokens. You need to understand how to call signtool.exe You could perhaps setup a post buld event for your project to do the signing - but bear in mind signing takes time so only add it to the release config. Alternatively - (vendor plug) - use FinalBuilder to generate your release builds - in which case code signing is pretty easy.

https://www.finalbuilder.com/resources/blogs/code-signing-with-usb-tokens

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This is awesome, embarcadero have no excuse for poor performance now! 🤣Nice one As someone who uses runtime packages (due to the plug architecture of my application) - this is a god send - I have profiled the crap out of my code, found a lot of small improvements and a couple of large ones - but quite often the profiler shows the majority of the per ends up somewhere inside the RTL - this will allow me to do another round of profiling. The only down side is I have an amd cpu, and uProf is nowhere near as good as VTune (although both suck when it comes to UI/UX).

I can reproduce this here (only tested with berlin).

FWIW, all my open source delphi projects at https://github.com/VSoftTechnologies/ support Delphi 12.

I'm looking for a library that will allow me to modifying windows PE file, modifying/adding data directories/headers/sections etc. Yes I could figure it all out myself, but time is short and I'm lazy, so I am hoping there is a library out there that will speed up the learning process - free/open source (not gpl) or commercial ok, as long as the source is available. Any suggestions? Thx.

Interesting, license is "as is" - so does that overrider the gpl of the other project - it doesn't appear to be any attribution of the original project - kinda disingenuous to misrepresent another's work as your own and then apply a GPL license to it 💁‍♂️

Yes thanks, I have seen this (and learned from it). I'm looking into building a remote signing tool - so that I can sign from multiple machines without needing the token drivers installed - right now we have to run all code signing on a single build agent that has access to the token - it's caused us a lot of work splitting out the code signing on all our build processes - which results in longer build times as we move files between agents and the server - ie agentX builds, sends artifacts back to server, server sends them to agent5 (the one that can sign), agent 5 signs them and sends them back to the server, which then sends them to agentX to continue the build process (pacakging and deployment etc). All very unsatisfactory. I haven't been able to work on it for a few weeks as other more urgent tasks popped up (like replacing confluence) but hope to get back to it soon.

Yes seems so, I saw that and decided against using it.

Thanks, hadn't seen this one.

Actually this is really useful - I've been working from some C based examples - I do actually need to add another section so this is is exactly what I need thanks.

I generally just set the major version on the manifest , e.g 8.0.0.0 and don't bother with updating it for every build. I also wouldn't use the Mage tool if you are not using .net - it adds stuff to the manifest you don't need/want.

Actually found some wintrust api's are in WinApi.Windows - fooled by code insight again 🙄 I really wish the windows api translations followed the original h files - a WinApi.Wintrust would make it much easier to find.

ntifs.h, wintrust.h - probably others - still working out what I need.

Yeah I'm making progress just using the windows api's - the most annoying part is not having delphi translations for much of what I need. I did see the mitec library - as you say it doesn't do writing. After spending much of the day searching/reading, I think I will just have to bite the bullet and do it from scratch.

Yeah I did have a quick look at it.. not what I need. I found plenty of code for reading the basic PE/MSDOS headers, but I need to get into the sections etc. I'm investigating adding certificates so need to enumerate sections and append some data to to the exe. So it's a lot more involved than just reading the basic info.

Thanks but not really - I need much more in depth than that.